> The directory entry would ceryainly have to be reread after a write> operation on disk that touched it - or more simply, the directory entry> would hvae to be reread every time it were needed, i.e. be uncached.

*ouch* Sure. Right. You just have to read it from scratch every time. Howwould you make readdir work?

> If that presently is not possible, then I would like to think about> making it possible.

Just please, tell us why.

Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>

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